The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01

The past two months, says a letter from Harney Lakes, Ore, to the San Francisco Post, have not been happy ones for the calves which have been browsing around the borders of this lake, for a stout campaign has been di- rected against them, and several hun dreds of young animals have been marked and branded during the past few days. It would seem that the operations entailed a vast amount of pain upon them, but owing to the toughness of the brutes' hides. the bluntness of their nerves, and their general easy nature, a steer or a heifer does not seem to experience more than momentary inconvenience from the necessary mutilation.
 This campaign calls for an extraor- dinary degree of physical exertion on the part of the cowboy. He responds to the call with all the alacrity of his ardent nature. The principal part of this work lies at the corrals, some five uul1CS HUH LllO hOuSc.
 It takes a great deal of preparation to get ready for such trip. The huge wagon had to be loaded with the camp outfit and it need not be imagined that the cowboy undertakes such an expedition without a very formidable array of impediments. Mattresses are taken along, and goodly assortment of blankets, for, though the days may be warm, yet on sundown there arises such breeze that it may be likened to an arctic tornado. On this occasion there was no less than six men in the outfit the wagon being intrusted to the care of the man who had the honor of giving the famous bear Club Foot his club-foot, and who is we'll noted throughout the country round as poet hunter and philosopher. His poetic compositions on the Modoc war and other National events would rank in his opinion as one of the classics, if it were not for the deplor- able fact that he lives in so degenerate and unsympathetic an age.
 THE HUNT FOR CATTLE.
 On arriving upon the stamping ground it is the plan to split into par ties and thoroughly SCOUT different sections of the country for cows and their calves. This is no easy matter, as the cattle seem to band together and range for a few miles in small societies, and then again few miles distant another herd may be found. This entails upon both horse and rider a great deal of exer- tion, for often the cattle are hard to drive, charging about in all di- rections, and keeping the horse in a state of fretful excitement When, however, all the cattle have been gathered in the allotted section they are driven to convenient locality and there held until the band arrives from the other section. Then commences a babel, the like of which can be heard only when near a vast herd of cows The lowing and the believing that a couple of hundred COWS can make has no equal in the world. It is a regular swelling noise, regular wave of dia- bolical, never-ceasing sound in all notes and keys, from the squeak of the suck ing-pig to the angry roar of an enraged ion. Belief in the ancient fable that a COW is a contemplative creature and religiously occupies all her leisure moments in chewing the cud is very speedily dropped on close acquaintance with the range COW. There one realizes that the COW occu- pies her time with believing consider ably when she is heading for a corral. and is not at all of docile nature, but is inclined to be obstinate and extreme ly stupid. In fact there are very few animals that have a more lavish amount of abuse showered on them than the range cow-perhaps with the exception of the Hindoo plowman's s cow, which not only gets villainously abused, but gets her tail twisted.
 When the cows have all been punched together, then comes the samewhat difficult task of separating the al- ready branded calves and their moth- CTS. It is duty which requires as much discretion from the horse as from the man, for the horse that knows his business will soon recognize the COW and the calf that are wanted. and will drive them out from the herd with, perhaps. but little guiding from its rider. The cows then are all huddled together in narrow plain which bor-